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by dxbydt 2y ago
I don’t want to lead with the mean retort that people who say they don’t care about money often don’t have any, so let me give you the kinder version - I think you come from a place of immense privilege. Either born in a first world country
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by dxbydt 2y ago
The goal of finance jobs is that if you are any good, you won’t stagnate at that median salary for long. You make do with the 5k for a decade, pay your dues, then work your way upto the 7 figure club. Atleast that’s what my predecessors did
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by dxbydt 2y ago
> trivia is popular here in the US too When you interview at Blackrock in SF, they walk you thru a bunch of rooms. Each room has a door. On each door is the name of a famous economist. When the interview begins, you have to recollect al
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by dxbydt 2y ago
There are more sailors than ships. In this context, something like 10000 applicants for a single rrb vacancy. You don’t want the railways to be nepotistic. Nor do you want legacy admits. Nor money power to dominate. What’s left ? Well, how
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by dxbydt 2y ago
> only way to pass is to know someone who can give you the questions in advance RRB is remarkably transparent. You can download past papers going back two decades & study them. There are multiple youtube channels that solve all of th
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by dxbydt 2y ago
> but it could be anywhere. > It's only inertia that keeps it in London Not at all! Over a decade in banking, I have witnessed this argument resurface time and again in the context of the US. Indeed, it's true that two of
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by dxbydt 2y ago
if it really was the most powerful force, the button I’m going to press below should say “post”. Instead it says “add comment”
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by dxbydt 2y ago
must commend this briton for his unparalleled sense of humor, razor-sharp wit, subtle, effortlessly charming and perfectly timed quips. While American humor tends to be more direct and sometimes louder, this dry, understated delivery is a u
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by dxbydt 2y ago
45^2 = 2025 => must be the sum of first 45 odds => 1 + 3 + ... + 87+ 89 = 2025 while its not pythagorean, 40^2 + 20^2 + 5^2 = 2025. 877 is another bullcrap that has shown up on a bunch of these tests. 877 is a prime, and four times 87
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by dxbydt 2y ago
> In a Jupyter notebook... > Often, Jupiter notebooks... Everytime I search my Slack, I have to run two searches because DS can't agree on how to spell the damn thing.
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by dxbydt 2y ago
I give amc & mathcount mocks to kids every weekend & time them. There was one question everyone got under 5 seconds. I was like how did you guys do it so fast. Apparently aops had told them every year will have a special property th
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by dxbydt 2y ago
> Small part time gigs, some substitute teaching, bar-backing and construction work. Was in the same boat.Did the audio-to-text transcribing gig on amazon mturk. It was a tossup between that & odd jobs at Walmart at that time. Recess
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by dxbydt 2y ago
Saw that movie in the theater in my early teens. When he turns into a snake - watching that on a 30 feet high screen from the front row - scarred me for life. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GF0Z5g0Wjuk
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by dxbydt 2y ago
A lot of us have had a pretty bad experience.To say we are all projecting is the real joke. I live in a college town & work with several kinds who are >2 std dev of your median cohort. Kids with a perfect ACT score in math at the age
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by dxbydt 2y ago
on the contrary, most relationships got started only because both partners enjoy exploring each other’s bodies. any other activities they might have in common is some afterthought that is tacked on after the relationship acquired a stable f
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by dxbydt 2y ago
> the hard part is what to do about it? After 8 years in a public school, I've decided enough is enough. I've attended numerous school board meetings. Written to teachers. Given generously to the teacher funds. Voted. Nothing w
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by dxbydt 2y ago
As a statistician, perhaps the most useful feature of statistical thinking is an explicit rejection of point estimate. Always, always, always, give an interval estimate, or a five point summary if you have that. This was the one lesson that
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by dxbydt 2y ago
the way things are headed in the US, “kids should be taught” is itself an aspirational goal. “think logically” would be icing on a nonexistent cake. my state is unwilling to pay more than $21 per hour to a teacher. every attempt to add eve
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by dxbydt 2y ago
extraordinary. you’ve demolished his argument with purely dimensional analysis. bravo!
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by dxbydt 2y ago
I prefer to make a distinction between recurrence, identity, and formula. Otherwise the whole discussion is moot. For example, to compute the nth fibonacci, we have Binet’s formula. We don’t need to bootstrap - we just take the golden ratio
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by dxbydt 2y ago
i am essentially a rayiner on steroids, in that i believe america has absolutely nothing meaningful to offer to the world at large other than aops and rsm. its such an extraordinary institution. large number of international signups - so to
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by dxbydt 2y ago
> Functional programming is about finding the formula for a particular program. Can be disproved trivially. Anyone can code up a program that generates the nth prime for some n, by iteratively accumulating n primes starting from 2 using
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by dxbydt 2y ago
I have zero issues with your logical reasoning - its the same reasoning aops gives. I'm simply asking - how do you know for sure that this actually happens in practice ? Like, have we observed such a thing ? I'm genuinely curious,
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by dxbydt 2y ago
> pontificate about things that are too small or too dark and far away to see I was bitten by this last week. I am enrolled in an aops physics course, titled Mechanics. So the last time I took any Mechanics was 40 years ago as a high sch
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by dxbydt 2y ago
Those are 2 good examples. A lot of the old terminology is very powerful because it doesn’t try to be slick/pc. Saying ‘variance’ is slick but it doesn’t convey as much as dispersion. Statisticians also speak in terms of first raw mome
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by dxbydt 2y ago
> refused to allow users to download their data > instead of having it uploaded to FitBit's servers I download my monthly data from the fitbit server into LibreOffice. I have about 2 million steps on my fitbit. I have csv files g
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by dxbydt 2y ago
I know of atleast three software engineers who quit programming to pursue music fulltime. This lady[1] got a Computer Science degree from UC Berkeley, as even an intern at one of the faangs I believe. Quit the whole thing and caught a fligh
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by dxbydt 2y ago
> they didn't try to fit a distribution or two? Since mu is 28, and 13 is the min, you have 28-13=15 = 3*5, which makes sigma 5, so use rnorm(n,28,25) to generate n samples from the gaussian. https://www.desmos.com/c
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by dxbydt 2y ago
One of the cnbc guys compared this morning's disaster to an emergency surgery - "they will live, but what sort of a life will they have..."
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by dxbydt 2y ago
Sir, you write so well! I read it twice and then I had to literally put the phone away and walk around, letting your thoughts bounce around in my little brain. Just felt I needed to thank you for taking the time. Thanks.

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